Friday, August 3, 2007, #147 (1414)

Today in history
1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland
1916 - World War I: Battle of Romani-Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Fuhrer
1946 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States
1960 - Niger gains independence from France
1996 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service

Birthdays
1905 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican-born actress (d. 1983)
1926 - Tony Bennett, American singer
1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor
1941 - Martha Stewart, American media personality
1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French film director and screenwriter

Georgian Words of the Day
ice cream - naqini

cake - namtskhvari

candy - kanpeti

sweet - tkbili

dessert - deserti

What is your favorite dessert?
romelia sheni saqvareli deserti?

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